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Article: Kant's Aesthetic Theory: An Introduction.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
- Author:
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Kemal's useful introduction is largely devoted to the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment. It guides the reader through many of the topics which make up that philosopher's aesthetic theory. Among the matters not dealt with, or dealt with only in passing, are Kant's theory of the sublime, his conception of adherent beauty (importantly different from free beauty and excluded from the domain of pure judgments of taste), and the question whether Kant does or can allow for ugliness, the opposite of beauty.
The first five chapters of Kemal's work are directed first to the historical background of Kant's aesthetic theory, and then to Kant's conception of the ...